The MPs gave a final reading to a number of social measures in support of employees of institutions that are exposed to increased risks to health during pandemics, IPN reports.

The amendments were made to the Labor Code, the Salary Law and the Law on the Salary in the Public Sector. According to the lawmakers, these will improve the current normative framework concerning remuneration for the done work and ensuring of the rights and legal interests of salary earners who work in conditions of increased risk to health.

The legislative proposal was formulated by PPPDA MP Liviu Vovc. “In May 2020, the Government presented bill No. 69 that introduced bonuses to the salaries of frontline medical personnel. But that bill was provisional. We now proposed a bill to amend the Labor Code, the Salary Law and the Law on the Salary in the Public Sector so as to adjust the legislation. If there are other pandemics and states of emergency, the medical staff should enjoy such bonuses at once,” Liviu Vovc stated in a press briefing.

Under the bill, the standard list of works and jobs and the size of the bonus for work done in unfavorable conditions, with direct involvement in the containing of pandemics during a state of public health emergency, are agreed by the Government.